High above Sao Paulo’s choked streets, the rich cruise a new highway
With the newsroom clock about to strike 11.30am Natalia Ariede, a 26-year-old reporter from Brazil’s biggest TV network, was gearing up for another day’s work.
Minutes later she was 2,400 feet over one of the world’s largest cities, racing to the scene of a road-traffic accident in her floating office - Globo television’s specially adapted four-seater Squirrel helicopter better known as the Globocop.
“Even if something happens on the other side of the city we can be there in 15 minutes,” she said as the aircraft swept towards its target across a seemingly endless sea of concrete dotted with swimming pools, helipads, shantytowns and abandoned warehouses.
by Hector Lima, Writer; Irapuan Luiz, Artist, Colorist; Michelle Fiorucci, Letterer, Colorist